November 2025 marks 100 years since archaeologists first examined Tutankhamun 's mummified remains. What followed wasn't ...
Tutankhamun’s death mask is one of the most-recognized images around the globe. Measuring 21 inches tall, inlaid with a detailed mosaic of precious stones, and featuring a 5.5 lb golden beard, the ...
A dagger made for King Tutankhamun defies all logic of how it could have been crafted in it's era. The dagger was buried with ...
One hundred years ago, our understanding of ancient Egypt changed forever when the tomb of King Tutankhamun was found on November 4, 1922 in the Valley of Kings. Born around 1305BC, Tutankhamun only ...
Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, who supervised the first CT scan of the mummy of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun this week, said the experience suggested it might be unwise to write off the legendary “curse of ...
A traveling blockbuster exhibition featuring the treasures of King Tutankhamun, the famed boy pharaoh, may have breached Egyptian laws meant to protect antiquities. When the show was planned, Egypt’s ...
After the discovery, it took years to move most of the tomb’s contents to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. (Note: The new Grand Egyptian Museum, about 12 miles west of the existing Egyptian Museum, is ...
This month marks the centenary of the revelation of Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt by British Egyptologist Howard Carter in 1922. And Visconti is taking note, offering a limited edition pen collection ...
Tutankhamun is sometimes described as the “most famous and least important of the pharaohs”. But unlike Ramesses II (aka Ozymandias), Cleopatra, or Khufu (aka Cheops), who built the Great Pyramid, he ...